"Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible."

--

Francoise Giroud

#Mistake Quotes

“This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...”
“If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.”
“Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.”
“Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.”

Source : Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing
“There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.”
“For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.”
“The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.”
“I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.”

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